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A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984 · directed by Wes Craven · 91 min
26,420 feet · Prominence
179th of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredThe 179th highest film on the mountain, and The Rewatchables has never done it.

How this film scores

Draw60

Lifetime worldwide gross $57m, re-releases included; about $181m in 2026 money.

Rank1,873 of 11,051In 198414 of 112

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise85

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics85 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy80

Judged directly: Freddy Krueger is a permanent horror icon.

Verdict80 of 100IMDb7.4 from 290kWikipedia58k views a monthAge42 years

On the listsNational Film Registryevidence, not an input to the score
Scored beside it · 128 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 60 praise 85 legacy 80averages 75, placing it at26,420 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

In these careers — elevation for this film

Robert Englund19,336 ftHeather Langenkamp18,642 ftJohnny Depp18,498 ftJohn Saxon18,225 ftAmanda Wyss18,040 ftCharles Fleischer17,734 ft